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Ray Power

What if tactical success in football isn't about finding the "right" system but seeing the game differently?In Coaching Through Superiorities, leading coach educator Ray Power unlocks a fresh framework for modern coaching, built around five key pillars: Numerical, Qualitative, Positional, Cooperative, and Dynamic Superiority. Rather than prescribing formations or rigid playbooks, this book invites you to explore football as a fluid, problem-solving game – ...

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Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer.This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics, and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation, communication, psychology, and age-specific considerations.Each chapter covers, in detail, a separate aspect of coaching to give you, the football coach, a broad understanding of youth soccer development. Each topic...

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Small-sided games are the epicentre of soccer improvement. Done right, they can play a huge role in the development of players. The environment created through these games makes it possible not just to 'let the game be the teacher,' but also to improve specific skills and tactics - all in the context of the real game. We do this by manipulating the secondary rules of the game, by either adding elements or constraining players in various ways.The ultimate alternative to the 'drill,'...

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In soccer, attacking sessions are loved by players. The chance to be creative, attack, and score goals is hugely prized by players at all levels of the game.The final piece of soccer is creating and scoring goals, and it has the reputation of being the most difficult part of the game – not many other sports can commonly offer results that do not involve a single goal or point being scored.Many coaching sessions are flawed when it comes to linking attacking practices to the ...

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Soccer is in transition. There is now a growing trend away from 'drills', towards sessions that are more variable and which involve more decision making. But coaches have one burning question - how?The 'Deliberate Soccer Practice' series shows coaches how to evolve their coaching sessions. It aims to ensure that players are 'cognitively engaged', with all players involved all of the time. It is about offering exercises which have players actively making regular contact with the bal...

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Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Rondo and Positional Play Practices is the fifth title in the bestselling practice series by coach and author Ray Power.Rondos are a football training methodology in constrained spaces, where one team has an overload over another and attempts to keep the ball away from the opposition. It is a practical training approach that has been championed by legendary coaches Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola, and clubs like Ajax and Barcelona, amongst others. To t...

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We are told that the art of defending is dying. We are told that even large academies neglect it, as it is not 'technical' enough.Based on the concept of Deliberate Practice, and extensive recent research into talent development, this book shows the coach how to organize and deliver effective exercises that teach players how to defend in all situations. With sound principles and an easy-to-understand approach, this book will help you teach your players to defend effectively by abso...

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Coaching Youth Football is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the international, best-selling soccer coaching book, Making The Ball Roll, by Ray Power.With the help of dozens of contributors from across the professional, academy, and grassroots games, best-selling coach educator Ray Power delves into the art and science of coaching youth football players, using up-to-date studies, methods, and ex...

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World Cups throw up unique tactical variations. Countries and football cultures from around the globe converge, in one place, to battle it out for world soccer supremacy. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was no different, arguably throwing up tactical differences like never seen at a competition in modern times.Contests are not just won by strong work ethics and technical brilliance, but by tactical discipline, fluidity, effective strategies, and (even) unique national traits.S...

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The events that Ray endured took place in rural Idaho in the mid-1980s and ’90s—where he has fallen prey to a secret predator who befriended him at a young age. Just after his teenage years of life, his world is about to change forever, as he is forced to grow up, leaving his childhood behind him when he is compelled to make a decision between love and deception. While it seems that all hope is lost and Ray has lost faith in humanity, a new beacon of hope emerges from the darkness to save ...

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Richard Matheson

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various narrators, Malcolm Hillgartner, Arte Johnson, Ray Porter, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver, Christine Williams, Ned Schmidtke, Julia Campbell, Jay Karnes, Lawrence Pressman, Conrad John Shuck, Richard Powers

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including the title story, which became a landmark episode of The Twilight Zone, and "Duel," the nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspi...

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Larry Kramer

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various narrators, Robertson Dean, Traber Burns, Keith Szarabajka, Ray Porter, Kate Reading, Laura Hicks, Grover Gardner, Bahni Turpin, Chris Patton, Kirsten Potter, Sean Runnette, MacLeod Andrews, Carrington MacDuffie, Richard Powers

The long-awaited new novel by America’s master playwright and activist—a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fearsForty years in the making, The American People embodies Larry Kramer’s vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here, as only he can, he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation ...